Vol. 12 No. 2 (2017)

The 12th issue of "Children's Readings" is dedicated to the centenary of the 1917 revolution. The studies presented in this issue aim to clarify the significance of the revolutionary events of 1917 in the history of children's literature. The transformation of the content and pragmatism of children's literature in the 1920s was not overnight. New Soviet values ​​began to be articulated only in 1923–1924, when, on the one hand, plots related to leftist ideology, such as “proletarian tales”, began to circulate in Russia more actively. The section "Diary of Kostya Ryabtsev: Three Dimensions" contains materials dedicated to one work, which can be called "exemplary of the era". N. Ognev's story absorbed genre, and stylistic searches of avant-garde art reflected reforms and experiments in school education in the 1920s and became the canonical representation of Soviet Russia in the west. Noted philologists, journalists, translators, and publishers answered the questions of DC's questionnaire. Among the survey participants are Konstantin Polivanov, Elena Romanicheva, Ilya Bernstein, Tatiana Sigalova, and others.